The latest jobless report from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission showed slight increases in almost all of Oklahoma’s counties for the month of January with McIntosh County having the highest rate at 8.7 percent and Cimarron County with the lo…
Some of the Oklahoma energy companies that were warned or removed from trading on the New York Stock Exchange because of their financial struggles aren’t alone. As the Houston Business Journal reported recently, Houston-based Ultra Petroleum Corp. has …
The 2015 Disclosing the Facts report on fracking is out with rankings of 30 publicly-traded energy companies and their disclosures of the chemicals used in the controversial process.
Eight oil and gas companies made improvements in their 2015 disclosu…
Oil futures settled lower on Friday, pulling back from a rally a day earlier, as Baker Hughes reported the first weekly rise in the U.S. oil drilling rig count this year.
West Texas Intermediate crude futures for April delivery fell 76 cents, or 1.9%,…
The latest weekly oil and gas rig count showed declines in Oklahoma and the nation, according to Baker Hughes Company of Houston, Texas. Oklahoma’s count fell by one in the past week to reach 66 compared to the 136 a year ago. The nation’s rig count dr…
Tulsa-based WPX Energy announced it amended and restated its revolving credity facility, getting a total commitments of $1.2 billion on a senior secured facility with an initial borrowing base of $1.025 billion. The revolver matures Oct. 29, 2019.
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TransCanada, the company that constructed the Keystone pipeline from Cushing south to the Gulf Coast but failed to win approval of the northern leg from Canada to Nebraska, is paying $13 billion to buy the U.S. gas pipeline company, Columbia Pipeline.
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Midstream energy companies no doubt are wondering how new regulations proposed by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will affect them. The rules were announced Thursday and will soon be posted in the Federal Register as a Notice…
The move by the Obama administration to finally give up a several year running fight over oil and gas leases on land outside Montana’s Glacier National Park has a direct bearing on Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy. The land is considered sacred to the …
Despite layoffs in Colorado’s oil patch and low prices for oil and natural gas, anti-fracking activists aren’t giving up their fight to ban fracking. And now they have won approval to circulate petitions to put such a ban before Colorado voters.
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